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Os Guinness (D.Phil., Oxford) is the author or editor of more than twenty-five books, including The American Hour, Time for Truth and The Case for Civility. A frequent speaker and prominent social critic, he was the founder of the Trinity Forum and has been a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies. He lives near Washington, D.C.

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Average rating: 3.81 · 1,008 ratings · 128 reviews · 39 distinct works

	The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life 3.80 avg rating — 439 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Fit Bodies, Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Don't Think and What to Do about It 3.82 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Time for Truth: Living Free in a World of Lies, Hype & Spin 3.81 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Prophetic Untimeliness: A Challenge to the Idol of Relevance 3.71 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	God in the Dark 4.19 avg rating — 36 ratings	My rating:
	Unspeakable: Facing Up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terror 3.69 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	The Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends on It 3.85 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Dining with the Devil: The Megachurch Movement Flirts with Modernity 3.57 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Gravedigger File: Papers on the Subversion of the Modern Church by Os Guinness, Nick Butterworth (Illustrator) 3.54 avg rating — 28 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Dust of Death: The Sixties Counterculture and How It Changed America Forever 4.15 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1973 — 5 editions	My rating:

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“Interestingly, God's remedy for Elijah's depression was not a refresher course in theology but food and sleep... Before God spoke to him at all, Elijah was fed twice and given a good chance to sleep. Only then, and very gently, did God confront him with his error. This is always God's way. Having made us as human beings, He respects our humanness and treats us with integrity. That is, He treats us true to the truth of who we are. It is human beings and not God who have made spirituality impractical.”
― Os Guinness, God in the Dark

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“Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.”
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“The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who gave up learning to ride a bicycle, complaining that he hurt himself because his bicycle stopped moving so he had no choice but to fall off? If he wanted to sit comfortably while remaining stationary, he should not have chosen a bicycle but a chair. Similarly faith must be put to use, or it will become useless.”
― Os Guinness, God in the Dark

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